Project 'Too Much': 1969 P1800S - soon to be P1800 GT

[DETON8R]

Nice shots extending the nose of the P1800. Are you planning to rework the lights too? Have you decided what they will look like?

Also, like the CAD drawings of the car showing the new/old track width. I saw a 1964 AC Cobra a few weeks ago, which was a really an AC Ace with a 289 and a 4 speed mod, with a very few changes and the style of these early 1960's European sports cars really was a wider front and narrower rear, with a wider front track width than the rear.

What is your front and rear tire track widths? And Hub to hub widths?

[daemon2]

If you look just past the nose on that last image you may notice some work starting on the lights, there was a lot of rust and patch work behind bondo in there so I will be redoing them.
I have some parts for the lights just haven't started with them yet, I have to find someone who can do custom lenses for me. I will post images when I get to that work.
Stock P1800: front and rear track width 51.8", P1800 body with is 66.93" at the widest point on the body. The widest point is the middle across the doors and it tapers in front and rear.
New:
Rear track: 60.5"
Front track: 54.5"

Rear hub to hub: 62.5
Front hub to hub: 58.5

Total width rear: 68.0"
Total width front: 64.2"

Originally Posted by DETON8R

Nice shots extending the nose of the P1800. Are you planning to rework the lights too? Have you decided what they will look like?

Also, like the CAD drawings of the car showing the new/old track width. I saw a 1964 AC Cobra a few weeks ago, which was a really an AC Ace with a 289 and a 4 speed mod, with a very few changes and the style of these early 1960's European sports cars really was a wider front and narrower rear, with a wider front track width than the rear.

What is your front and rear tire track widths? And Hub to hub widths?

[DETON8R]

Did you check out http://www.sickhids.com/ for custom lights?

Also, I've seen some other custom cars that used other cars light assemblies, I'm thinking that I might use Mini Cooper lights.
http://www.carid.com/2002-mini-cooper-headlights/

Unfortunately there aren't many modern cars that look like they will work with minimum modifications for a custom P1800. I've ben looking, the late model/retro Thunderbird lights might work too, but they would be way more work that the Mini lights. The Mini light assemblies just look like the might be a bit big.

I'm still working my tail lights for my 1969 Camaro. I have billet lenses, and I just can't spend >$200 for progressive tail lights. I found a company that sells tons of LED's to the trucking industry, and I purchased a set of progressive controllers and a few other pieces for the custom light's that I'm going to use from them. Should be able to make my own tail lights for just over $100.
http://www.rodworx.com/
http://www.uatparts.com/

These tend to focus on LEDs, running lights and tail lights, not HID's for head lights. I have not looked around too much for custom HID's yet, as I'm using the standard round headlights for the Camaro, so I don't have to look around too hard yet. I've looked around at the Good Guys shows and a few other shows and not much is available in those venues for custom applications.

[daemon2]

Thanks for the tips - I have my HID internals already, I need to start working on the custom housing. There are a few companies out there that retrofit an existing housing with HID but my issue is I need a custom housing
I looked at different head light assemblies available off the shelf but nothing was close enough to what I had in mind. One of my cars is a Mini Cooper S, I have seen these lights used in a few different hot rods but just don't want something that recognizable on this car, the two beside each other in the garage would give it all away.
I may have something to post on the lights in the next few weeks, I'm still focused on the body...

Any pics on custom headlight housings?

[daemon2]

I have been working on the headlight layout, testing a few ideas and started a final mock up for 3-d rendering. The lights are Xenon, HID and LED, the finish will be a mix of chrome and carbon fiber.
It may be hard to visualize but this arrangement looks promising when I put paper mockups of the parts with the car. Yes - makin' **** up as I go here - like I said, never done this before...

[WSSix]

Looks interesting. While the five light arc be LED turn signals? I love the lights on Audis and this reminded me of those.

[daemon2]

The five light arc is actually Hella LEDayFlex DRL - I think thats exactly what they run on the Audis. The LED turn signals are the little donut with colored plastic extensions.
Its cool the rendering reminded you of the audi.

Originally Posted by WSSix

Looks interesting. While the five light arc be LED turn signals? I love the lights on Audis and this reminded me of those.